The Do Nothings

The argument that we need filibuster reform in the Senate is heating up again... as it should.  Here is the record of the Congress over the span of time that includes the Truman "Do Nothing" Congress as put out the on FB by 1jdgriff:

"Not even the 80th Congress, which President Truman called the "do-nothing Congress" in 1948, passed as few laws as the current one, records show.

Fewer laws have been passed by this Congress than by any other in the last 65 years. Number of laws passed each year by Congress since 1947:

2012: 61; 
2011: 90; 
2010: 258; 
2009: 125; 
2008: 280; 
2007: 180; 
2006: 313; 
2005: 169; 
2004: 300; 
2003: 198; 
2002: 241; 
2001: 136; 
2000: 410; 
1999: 170; 
1998: 241; 
1997: 153; 
1996: 245; 
1995: 88; 
1994: 255; 
1993: 210; 
1992: 347; 
1991: 243; 
1990: 410; 
1989: 240; 
1988: 473; 
1987: 240; 
1986: 424; 
1985: 240; 
1984: 408; 
1983: 215; 
1982: 328; 
1981: 145; 
1980: 426; 
1979: 187; 
1978: 411; 
1977: 223; 
1976: 383; 
1975: 205; 
1974: 404; 
1973: 245; 
1972: 383; 
1971: 224; 
1970: 505; 
1969: 190; 
1968: 391; 
1967: 391; 
1966: 461; 
1965: 349; 
1964: 408; 
1963: 258; 
1962: 484; 
1961: 401; 
1960: 417; 
1959: 383; 
1958: 620; 
1957: 316; 
1956: 638; 
1955: 390; 
1954: 492; 
1953: 288; 
1952: 339; 
1951: 255; 
1950: 481; 
1949: 440; 
1948: 511; 
1947: 395"

You will note that in 1995, when Newt Gingrich was in charge, Congress had a similar lapse under the Clinton administration's watch.  It didn't work then and it won't work now.